National and Regional Balances of Qualifications and Occupations in the EHEA

 
PIIS013216250008805-8-1
DOI10.31857/S013216250008805-8
Publication type Article
Status Published
Authors
Occupation: Head of the Center
Affiliation: Center for Comparative Eurasian Studies and Surveys (CEASS-Center)
Address: Austria, Vienna
Occupation: Professor in Pedagogy and Youth Research
Affiliation: Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich
Address: Germany, Munich
Journal nameSotsiologicheskie issledovaniya
EditionIssue 3
Pages78-90
Abstract

The article discusses issues related to the trend towards the massification and universalization of higher education and its implications in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). Research sample includes 44 out of 48 EHEA countries and covers the 1999–2017 period. Subject of the study are several aspects of labour market equilibria related to the dynamics of higher education attainment (supply of qualified labour force) and the availability of corresponding jobs that require higher education (demand of the labour market). The related equilibria are described and discussed as five sub-regional constellations within EHEA and one reference country, the USA. The empirical apparatus of the given research is built upon the three basic indicators describing the higher education and the qualification structure of national and regional labour markets; these indicators are taken from the open data bases of UNESCO and IOL. The results of the empirical study show for most European countries the prevalence of the demand for graduate workers over the supply of tertiary graduates, with an exception of several post-soviet countries. The authors conclude that universalisation of HE should be understood as the preferred development under the conditions that the related educational policies (a) foster the quality of HE programs and their outcomes, (b) increase human potential and social cohesion, (c) do not generate new social inequalities and d) meet with increased structural quality of the labour market.

Keywordsmassification and universalization of higher education; labour market demand and supply; regional equilibria of labour markets; higher education graduates; European Higher Education Area (EHEA)
Received14.03.2020
Publication date16.03.2020
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